Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Basketball player and author
Barack Obama has shown us how to be a politician guided by intelligence, integrity, and compassion.
Which living person do you most admire, and why?
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When were you happiest?
Time & hindsight
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What is your idea of perfect happiness?
Identity & self
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What is your greatest fear?
Identity & self
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The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
The Guardian's Q&A repeatedly uses this prompt, sometimes dropping 'living' while retaining the same comparative judgment.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Noam Chomsky, Barack Obama.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, May 2015 source ↗
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Rob Brydon
Welsh actor and comedian
Rod Stewart. For obvious reasons.
Isla Fisher
Australian actress
David Walliams, for making the transition from comic actor to bestselling kids’ author. I’m not sure I’ll be able to do the same.
My wife, because of the lessons we’ve learned and what we have overcome over the course of our time together.
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Happiness is going to come and go, but to have a chance at intermittent happiness you need to be free from fear. In our culture, in our day, we can lose sight of what a rare gift that is: to live free from fear
Still nuclear annihilation.
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